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Ohio teens charged with murder over sandbag tossed from overpass
CBS News ^ | 12/27/17

Posted on 12/27/2017 1:23:19 PM PST by Simon Green

Four Ohio teens face murder charges after allegedly throwing a sandbag from a highway overpass. The bag smashed through the windshield of a car that Marquise Byrd, 22, was riding in last week on Interstate 75 in Toledo. Byrd died from severe head injuries on Friday.

Three of the boys charged are 14 years old, and the other is 13. They had already been charged with felonious assault, reports CBS News correspondent Jericka Duncan.

Around 10 p.m. last Tuesday, a woman was driving with her friend, Byrd, under an overpass when something came crashing through the passenger-side windshield. She pulled over and called 911.

"I don't know what happened! My friend, I don't know what happened, he's not moving!" she told the dispatcher. "Something hit my car. And hit my friend. And he is not moving!"

"OK, you don't know what hit him?" the dispatcher asked.

"No, my windshield is, like, smashed up. … He is laid out on my seat. I think the windshield might have smacked his head," the distressed woman responded.

Police arrested four juveniles after seeing them leave the area near the overpass. They're accused of throwing objects off the interstate bridge. It was a sandbag that broke the windshield and hit Byrd in the passenger seat. He leaves behind a 2-year-old son and was reportedly engaged to be married.

The arrests come nearly two months after a similar incident near Flint, Michigan. Five teens there are facing charges of second degree murder after throwing rocks off an overpass, hitting a vehicle and killing 32-year-old Kenneth White.

The four Ohio teens are awaiting confirmation of their next court date.

"It's not fun and games. I mean, people are losing their lives," Warren police commissioner Bill Dwyer said. "And the consequences for these kids that think it's fun and games and a prank, they're gonna go to prison."

Prosecutors say given the ages of the boys, their case will likely remain in juvenile court. In addition to the murder charges, the boys are facing charges of felony vehicular vandalism.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; US: Ohio
KEYWORDS: blackcrime; driving; fallingobjects; heathens; localnews; murder; overpass; overpasses; roadhazards; sandbag; savages
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To: PLMerite

“I emptied two mags of .45 thru a Combat Commander at em but I never hit em.
If you’re serious, you are my absolute Hero.”
I’m not lying...it really happened. I still have that gun, but don’t carry it anymore. Instead, it’s a Glock 30 Gen4 w/3 mags that sits by my side. FWIW, thinking back on it, IF I had been successful and got caught, I probably would have been arrested and tried for murder of some sort.


41 posted on 12/27/2017 2:39:43 PM PST by lgjhn23 (It's easy to be liberal when you're dumber than a box of rocks.)
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To: Simon Green
Apparently four "teens" murdered a "youth", if you get my drift.
 
42 posted on 12/27/2017 2:41:35 PM PST by Governor Dinwiddie (CNN is fake news.)
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To: Wiser now
They didn't always have the fences in Ohio.

When I was a kid, I remember reading a story that said:"Local man who loved reading has eyes removed"

Some subhumans had thrown a concrete brick off an overpass and it hit the guys car, smashing his face.

He died a couple of days later.

This has stuck with me all of these years.

My dad said at the time: "Son, I always glance up when I drive under overpasses."

I made it a habit to do that as well.

43 posted on 12/27/2017 2:42:25 PM PST by boop ("So much wasted time"-David Cassidy)
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To: blueunicorn6

Or you were running just slow enough.I always scan overpasses as I approach them while driving.You just never know.


44 posted on 12/27/2017 3:02:57 PM PST by HANG THE EXPENSE (Life's tough.It's tougher when you're stupid.)
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To: Simon Green

Duarte would wait for some heavy truck traffic and then throw them off the that overpass...So would I...


45 posted on 12/27/2017 3:04:36 PM PST by SuperLuminal (Where is another agitator for republicanism like Sam Adams when we need him?)
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To: Simon Green
Ohio teens charged with murder over sandbag tossed from overpass

They should have been convicted before being tossed from an overpass.

46 posted on 12/27/2017 3:27:46 PM PST by BykrBayb (Lung cancer free since 11/9/07. Colon cancer free since 7/7/15. Obama free since 1/20/17. PTL ~ Þ)
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To: Simon Green

In a just world we execute all murderers quickly after a trial that shows all the evidence. Nothing hid to benefit the murderers.

And I am talking everyone. Men, women, kids. For murder.


47 posted on 12/27/2017 3:29:50 PM PST by Secret Agent Man ( Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Simon Green

People used to marry before having children. How archaic.


48 posted on 12/27/2017 3:35:48 PM PST by Lisbon1940 (No full-term Governors (at the time of election!)
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To: Williams

Toop bad they were charges as juveniles. A mere salmon the wrist.


49 posted on 12/27/2017 3:38:05 PM PST by BunnySlippers (I love Bull Markets!)
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To: BunnySlippers

Oh that’s a keeper.


50 posted on 12/27/2017 3:40:02 PM PST by moehoward
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To: UCANSEE2

Sean Carter...Jay Z?...


51 posted on 12/27/2017 3:42:46 PM PST by EEGator
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To: moehoward

Haha! Apple’s spell check is a hoot. I almost started a list of them they were so amusing. The letters are not even close to where I was typing on the key pad ... Apple has it set to imagine what you wanted to say!


52 posted on 12/27/2017 3:53:44 PM PST by BunnySlippers (I love Bull Markets!)
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To: Simon Green

Murder 1? No, that is not appropriate. Manslaughter is a better fit.


53 posted on 12/27/2017 4:09:23 PM PST by Glad2bnuts (If Republicans are not prepared to carry on the Revolution of 1776, prepare for a communist takeover)
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To: lgjhn23

“FWIW, thinking back on it, IF I had been successful and got caught, I probably would have been arrested and tried for murder of some sort.”

Shoot, shovel and shutup.


54 posted on 12/27/2017 4:47:00 PM PST by LaRueLaDue
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To: Wiser now

> Ohio has chain link fencing on all highway overpasses. Are these kids climbing the fence while carrying a sandbag?

“The overpass typically has a 6-foot-tall “vandal fence” that prevents people from throwing objects on the highway, but the overpass bridge where the incident happened does not because of construction, according to Dangelo.”

http://getyourxbacknow.com/2017/12/27/teens-face-murder-charges-after-sandbag-thrown-from-oh/

From the Toledo area - been by this ‘intersection’ many times.


55 posted on 12/27/2017 5:07:53 PM PST by Kent C
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To: EEGator

You forgot LiAngelo. And nobody has told me yet why he has slots shaved in his eyebrows. Must be a cultural(?) thing.


56 posted on 12/27/2017 5:08:42 PM PST by sbxste
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To: Simon Green

If they didn’t show intent, no reasonable prosecutor would charge the case....James Comey


57 posted on 12/27/2017 5:14:04 PM PST by Fireone (Lock Her Up! (and 100 of her accomplices))
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To: EEGator

I think Jay Z is a little older than 14.

: )


58 posted on 12/27/2017 5:22:30 PM PST by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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To: lgjhn23

You can never have too much range
time. There are times when you just
have to fire warning shots into the
crowd.


59 posted on 12/27/2017 8:09:18 PM PST by Sivad (NorCal red turf)
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To: BunnySlippers

“A mere salmon the wrist.”

That right there is tagline worthy, kind of like the new “All your base are belong to us.”


60 posted on 12/27/2017 8:22:39 PM PST by bar sin·is·ter (Climate Scientology - another example of science fiction morphing into a religious cult)
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